This is an old page from Rod Begbie's blog.
It only exists in an attempt to prevent linkrot. No new content will be added to this site, and links and images are liable to be broken. Check out begbie.com to find where I'm posting stuff these days.
It would just seem like bragging if I were to say how many of these (at least my corner of) RhymesWithNose meets.
Spec for a forthcoming book from Leonard Richardson and Sam Ruby. I look forward to finding out how to raise my web service designs above the level of “HTTP+POX”.
That mime-doing-Torn you may have seen before - extended remix with live Natalie Imbrooglywoogly.
Eyetracking survey recommends placing labels above-and-flush-left with inputs on web forms.
Cory Doctorow’s spectacularly pant-pissy and, with hindsight, almost 100% inaccurate flameout about Apple including a TPM module. I wonder if he’s had the tattoo lasered-off yet.
Really interesting article on the TPM “Trusted Computing” chip inside some Intel Macs. Explains in detail that TPM != Microsoft’s evil Palladium scheme, and that the chip (which is not in newer Macs) can’t even be accessed without special device drivers.
Ah, the pleasures of working from home. (See notes on picture.) I could get quite used to this.
Wicked-nifty Javascript UI library, generously open-sourced by Yahoo. Using this with Django and Lucene, I was able to knock out a pretty decent AJAXy autocompleting search box within 24 hours of opening my big yap in a meeting and suggesting it as a feature. (The “Design Pattern Library” is also worth a read to anyone who juggles HTML)
Could this year’s election result in a hanging-chad-like farrago which convinces the general public that electronic-voting-without-paper-trail is A Bad Thing? I don’t know whether I should hope it does or doesn’t happen.
Another great pop-culture T-shirt from Threadless. Shame it arrived a week after their $10 sale.
Rilly rilly simple DS flash cart. Plug into USB, copy over roms + MP3s, then plug into your DS. “Only” $125.
Book about Django, being written in public to encourage peer review. The commenting system is particularly clever.
Ignore the shit headline, and you get a pretty good analysis of why Borat, Ali G, et al are so gut-wrenchingly funny to some, and just plain nasty to others.
Mitch Hurwitz’s new project is a US port of the low-key British political sitcom “The Thick of It”.
Bacon ensures our safety by keeping a beady eye our for any evil-doers (or cats) in the vicinity.
Tuckered out, bandana-d up, and smelling sweet, after a trip to the grooming salon at Petco.
This is an archive of groovmother.com, the old blog run by Rod Begbie — A Scottish geek who lives in San Francisco, CA.
I'm the co-founder of Sōsh, your handy-dandy guide for things to do in San Francisco this weekend.
